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  • A man asleep dreaming of monsters. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • Arrival of dawn and the break-up of a witches' gathering. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.
  • Potosí, Peru (later Bolivia): Edmond Temple, a lady (Doña Juliana), her Andean servants and two clerics assembled for grace after dinner. Aquatint by J. Clark, 1829, after W. Hornsby.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • Two wretches fighting in mid-air being grabbed by monsters. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Human figures, some with animal heads, praying. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A winged couple holding a crutch, accompanied by a cat and snake. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • The martyrdoms of the Bishops Ridley and Latimer: both men are stripped to the waist, tied together to a stake and burnt alive. Etching by Taylor after D. Dodd.
  • The Virgin of Loreto with a piece of the actual veil with which it was covered on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday of an unspecified year; attached with a paper seal. Woodcut with attached cloth.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Saint Christopher. Woodcut attributed to W.Y. Ottley.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Top, a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia; centre, a coach on a street in Baltimore; bottom left, slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia; bottom right, a slave playing the flute. Wood engraving after E.C., 1856.